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Printablerdhull said:"Ive always felt that SOTT should have been titled OZ.The reason is because there's so many Wizard of Oz type references."
I vaguely recall that, when the lively Italian, Toto, took 2 the stage in London 2 shake his thang  , Prince made a crack along the lines of him needing 2 get his groove on 'cos "u ain't in Kansas now".
Is this topic in danger of heading 2wards a munchkin conspiracy thread?  [This message was edited Tue Nov 26 7:45:23 PST 2002 by DorianGray] | |
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rdhull said: Mauve said: rdhull said: Mauve said: THANKS as The Wizard of Oz was n just on here on the USA, here is a trivia question...
...the witches hencemen do not really sing OH we OH, as we do from Beautiful Nite what do they sing?? oh WE all love the OLDDD one close but no well..what do they say? Because thats what a documentary said about it [This message was edited Mon Nov 25 22:56:04 PST 2002 by rdhull] Oh we Loathe the OOOLllldd one was a question on Jeopardy | |
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Dorothy Parker is a real person (if you didn't realize that). She was a poet, so I don't think that it's a reference to the Wizard of OZ. SOTT was the second phase of his 'french period' (in my oppinion) - he was attemting 'noir' and 'avante gaurd'. Good Love which was written about that time makes refernce to Gustav Mahler, the Dorothy Parker reference. Look at the cover too, it was post-modernist with the signs that looked like a city landscape and his little glasses to make him look suffisticated. Plus it was all done in peach and black. I'm not saying there was no Floyd influence, but nowhere near as strong as the corrilations between PR and Hendrix and ATWIAD and the Beatles.
Plus whats really funny is that the Floyd connection to the Wizard of Oz is speculation itself. So here we are speculating that Prince might have been referencing a speculated connection between Pink Floyd and MGM. It's reaching a little, but it makes for good reading.  | |
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VioletBlue said: "POP goes the music when the big white rabbit begin 2 talk
and the color green'll make yo best friend leave ya" This is a reference to folks from the Prince camp (Morris Day specifically, I think) who left the fold on less than good terms, somewhat due to COCAINE, among other things. There's a story I read somewhere...EVERYONE on the 1999 and Purple Rain tours were wasted, COKED OUT, all but Prince. Chick and Vanity are the main ones everyone knows about, but Morris also had habits, even after leaving the Prince camp. I agree with this take. Think about what he says in Old Friends 4 Sale: "Green and White we turn to blue" Which could be coke and money will lead to death -or- coke and money lead to sadness. Theres also in that song: "An old friend of mine got stuck in the snow" which is a cocaine refernce too. It's obvious someone had a habit that he felt was costing more than it was worth. "Sold some old pictures and all my little memories" etc... (my quotes might not be perfect but you all know what I'm talking about) | |
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: "Two friends of mine got stuck in the snow"
I read in DMSR that that line referred to Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis being late for a show on the 1999 tour because their plane couldn't lift off during a snow storm in Atlanta (where they were producing records without telling Prince. He was pissed). Chili Sauce. | |
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"It's obvious someone had a habit that he felt was costing more than it was worth. "Sold some old pictures and all my little memories" etc... "
The someone was Chick Huntsberry. He made up some stories for the Enquirer to feed his coke habit. Not being a jerk, just trying to inform. Chili Sauce. | |
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